RV retail sales drop 31% April year over year.

This thread feels done to me.

Move along.

shelbyfv wrote:

ferndaleflyer wrote:
Shall I list the reasons? Lets start with SSI, food stamps, medical cards, free or subsidized housing, food banks, and there is more. If you know how to work the system the last thing you need is a full time job....

Also Social Security and Medicare, our two largest income transfer programs. Lots of old folks would probably be back looking for work if we cut those! I agree this has little relevance to RV sales.

Nice spin....I'd bet a few bucks he wasn't referring to the intended recipients and those that SHOULD be collecting the SSI they paid into....
Thanks for playing!

"Divided we will fall"
Is this a political statement, or is it simply argumentative,....or both?
IMO it's a waste of time to pretend that we can solve these problems here. Let's just stay united by using RVing as the glue. It's just a suggestion, I'm not a preacher. I'm a senior citizen who knows some very important things about driving a motorhome safely.

ferndaleflyer wrote:
Shall I list the reasons? Lets start with SSI, food stamps, medical cards, free or subsidized housing, food banks, and there is more. If you know how to work the system the last thing you need is a full time job....

Also Social Security and Medicare, our two largest income transfer programs. Lots of old folks would probably be back looking for work if we cut those! I agree this has little relevance to RV sales.

PButler96 wrote:

larry cad wrote:
I wonder when we will start seeing a similar drop in new car sales? Prices now are WAY to high.

Give it a little time, as in months. 4 to 6 maybe. We're already in a recession despite what Mumbles claims.

I think I agree, although unlike RVs whose mfgs and dealers are now again flush with inventory on a recreational “luxury “ commodity, vehicle inventory new and used is still ridiculously low.
I think it’ll take longer to see vehicle prices normalize, unfortunately.

It’s funny to see the RVers get all weirded up about RV sales.
Just looking at total sales data, it doesn’t even make sense that more than 300-400k RVs a year is normal. So comparing to the previous 2 years is pointless.

larry cad wrote:
I wonder when we will start seeing a similar drop in new car sales? Prices now are WAY to high.

Give it a little time, as in months. 4 to 6 maybe. We're already in a recession despite what Mumbles claims.

I wonder when we will start seeing a similar drop in new car sales? Prices now are WAY to high.

31% drop in April. How about a 31.5% drop in May? That's sort of telling taking into account Mar/Apr/May are the months that are historically the months with the largest sales numbers.

Party Over

propchef wrote:

ferndaleflyer wrote:
GoDucks you just don't understand how the system works---plenty of people getting paid to stay home.

Complete nonsense and has no bearing on this topic. We're at full employment and many hourly folks still work more than one job.

The government has six different official measures of unemployment - U1 thru U6. Pick the one that supports the story you like. Probably a better measure is the labor participation rate since it measures the percentage of people capable of working who are actually working and paying taxes. That number has declined.

The real question I think people should be asking is how can the unemployment rate DECLINE with an increasing population when there are fewer people employed now than when the unemployment rate was higher?

Even with the price of fuel, there was too many RV’s to count going N & S on I-75 over 2 days last week.